Last. Anyone else quarantine confusion the u. K. s only telling new arrivals to isolate now that infections are falling which stop the spread. And on time the hamas now have all the support including tyson fears from osa says the match against the ontario wilder could happen this year in macau. 2 weeks after 46 year old black man george freud died under the knee of a Police Officer sparking a global wave of protest the accused killer has faced court Derek Sherman has been charged with 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as 2nd degree manslaughter is appeared by video link in a Minneapolis Court as the charges were read thousands of people queued to pay their respects to George Floyds body and his home city of houston is funeral will be held there on tuesday and as the protests grew the cry to defund the police has become louder counselors in minneapolis of already committed to dismantling the Department New york and los angeles have also vowed changes to funding. Lets go straight to john
Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec
A question just doesnt plan to slowly go back to work and to invest billions of euros to restart our economy which you think it can and the best Case Scenario the deescalation stage of transition to this new no model will last a minimum of approximately 6 weeks or 6 weeks theyre very concerned looking forward to the safe and rapid reopening of our country and i know people feeling emotional. But emotions keith drew a reopening perhaps right. Also coming up in the pandemic in germany face masks are now mandatory Summer Vacation looks unlikely and the chance of being tested for the virus in some very likely. If you lose that he will introduce more regular testing in cafe homes including for asymptomatic patients were also changing some of the rules for tests to get a better overview of the epidemic. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world a welcome we begin the day with a restless world eager to escape the coronavirus lock down much of the planet has
Within the dow. Take them out of the picture, things wouldnt be as bad as they are now. Were well off the earlier lows, down 400 points, down about 165 points but also fueling this, offsetting this if you will is talk of progress on that stimulus front. You remember where they were looking for republicans, another 250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program . Well they ran into a buzzsaw of criticism from democrats that argued it was too tilted to business so they wanted to make assurances for health care workers, hospitals, that sort of thing. I stress that they have reached a broad parameters of a deal. It is not a deal until they both mutually agree. Were seeing progress on the front. That mitigated losses in the dow and offset the oil impact. Edward lawrence joins us now from washington with how this is all progressing. Hey, edward. Reporter neil, close, very close. That is how it is being described. As you said no deal, no ink to paper as it were for this deal. Republicans ini
All that, plus, shocking interview, outrage after Harvey Weinstein casts himself as the victim holiday flipflop, the overnight apology from Hallmark Channel after coming under fire for removing a samesex wedding ad. And tiger roars tiger woods leads the u. S. Team to an emotional comeback win at that was twice as nice for the worlds greatest golfer. It was an honor for me as a player and even more of an honor to be their captain. Today, monday, december 16th, 2019 from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, welcome to today, thank you so much for joining us on this monday morning, savannah recovering from eye surgery were sending her all of our love and our well wishes and we hope to speak to her a little bit later and check in. She is getting better, we should tell you that. She certainly is. Were keeping a close watch on the weather, theres a winter storm spreading snow and ice, bringing travel delays, thi